The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1892 Page: 3 of 8
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—It la testified In a dlvoroe ease that
a Mr. Van Dncen beat hie wife with a
twenty-five pound turkey. That la too
tnnch turkey to be takes through the
pores— Judge.
v-A good many of the people whd lie
awake nights wondering What they will
do when they get to Heaven will have
to brooe np or they will never get there
at olL— Somerville Journal.
—Visitor—“Well, Johnny, I suppose
your father thinks the twins are some-
thing wonderful?" Johnny—“Yes, but*’
(in a confidential whisper) “I could lick
’em both together.”
—“What’s the matter with your
shoes?” “They leak.” “Why don’t
you try a little confession?'’ “For
what?" “Confession is good for the
sole. "—Rochester Express
—The telephone in Japan issaid to be
growing in popularity. At Tokio there
4a a general familiarity with the instru-
ment and its usee, and even in out-of-
the-way districts it is not unknown.
—A carious compliment to a dead
man was uttered by a marchlonesawho,
when told that the celebrated physician
Borden had been found dead in his bed.
exclaimed: “Ah! death was so afraid
of him that he did not dare attack him
except when he was asleep.”
—Mrs. Belle Gray Taylor, author of
the strking new novel, “The Sardonyx
Seal,” is a charming woman in her
home life and fascinating in society.
Mrs. Taylor has an unusual power of
perception, both in nature and art, a
keen appreciation of wit and a quick
and delicate pea
—Helen Hunt Jackson's body hoc
been removed from Cheyenne moun-
tain, where for six years it has rested,
and buried in Evergreen cemetery, Col-
orado Springs. The cause of the re-
moval is said to be the attempts of
property owners in the vicinity to exact
tolls from visitors.
—In June, 179H, Tennessee, having
adopted a constitution and otherwise
complied with the requisitions of the
United States, was admitted to the
Union. The first capital was Knox-
ville. At this time there were no set-
tlements in west Tennessee, and only a
few scattering ones in seven counties of
middle Tennessee.
r-CyeHng has drawn up a list of the
3 relative rates of speed that are reached
by the different methods of locomotion.
An express train comes first, doing the
mile in under fifty seconds; an ice
yacht second, doing the same distance
in seventy seconds, and the swimmer
the last oi all, taking a full half hour
for the feat
l" :—For some months Charles Hilde-
brand, of New Albany, Ind., had been
an invalid, unable to leave his bed. A
few days ago he heard an alarm of fire
in his house, and this so spurred him to
activity that he bounced out of bed
with the agility of an athlete, and hur-
riedly made his way from the burning
house.
—For thirty years the beard and mus-
tache of Mr. James Brown, of Benling-
ton, W. Va., has been untrimmed. With
bis arms extended he stretches fully tlx
feet from tip to tip of his fingers; yet
the «ods of his mustache, when held
horizontally, extend beyond his fingers.
He braids his wonderful beard and mus-
tache. and tucks them under his vest
—The most valuable dinner set in the
world is said to belong to Queen Vic-
toria. It fills two rooms in Bucking-
ham Palace and is guarded by two men
continually. Mrs. William Astor has a
gold dinner service valued at $30,000,
and the service, in lion and nnlcom re-
ponue work, Is used upon the finest of
white linen cloths bordered with lace,
showing a tint through its meshes of
the shade of gloire de Paris roses, which
ore used for the table deooratlons.
—A Cedar Rapids, la, man who owns
a valuable horse, conceived the idea of
testing human nature the other day.
Accordingly he hung a placard upon
the horse, which was tied in front of
his office, announcing that the entire
outfit must be sold far MflL Horn there
was a procession of experts looking at
the teeth of that poor horse and lifting
his feet with a most knowing air, each
one in turn announcing that the price
was ranch too high. 11 was n great object
lesson, and no one bad discovered that
a WOO outfit was being offered for fiUO
when the owner came out and drove
away.
—The fashion of modeling articles of
jewelry after serpenU and reptiles of
various sorts is scarcely Ukely to find
favor with people of delletae sensibili-
ties. There is something particularly
inappropriate in the sight of a snake,
however prettily made, ia actual con-
tact with the delicate skin of a beauti-
fully turned arm or neok. Thors are
quite enough designs in the world which
str# pretty and sensible, and one may
Wave these laeongruoun articles oat of
the list and suffer no serious loss.
—The earliest “iafsrnai machines" on
from the siege of Antwerp
ee Italian engineer.
Common Sense Has Something More to
Soy on the Snhlsct
What I said in my first article was
preparatory and intended to show the
fact that while one kind of farming
may be made to pay some other kinds
could not I wish to reduce the mat-
ter down to a plain common-sense
basis—so speculation, no guess work.
Let each of our readers think for one
moment Can't each one of von now
coll to mind some one or more farmers
in your own neighborhood who have
been andare now making money farm-
ing?
Before I go further in what I intend
to say I wish it distinctly understood
that I am talking about farming in
Kentucky, and not other states What
I shall say may be jaet as trne as ap-
plied to other seotions of this great
country, and of course, much of it will
be. But os oil my own actual experi-
ence in farming has been in this state I
wish to apply my remarks to condi-
tions as they exist here. I can pick
out quite a number of farmers in my
own county, and in different parts of
the state where I am acquainted,
who have uniformly mode money farm-
ing and are making money now.
They have no other occupation, no
other source of revenue and arc getting
in better fix financially every year. If
in debt for land, improvement or other
property, they are lessening their
debts. If already out of debt, they are
laying up something or making new
investments.
It must be understood that even the
most successful farmers may encounter
a year occasionally when the farm does
not pay. This may happen from a
very unfriendly season, or from cy-
clones or destructive storms, or some
unavoidable accident. What I mean is,
take an average for any five or more
years and a fair profit has been made.
Large jin vestments pay about four
per cent Smaller ones, six
to eight per cent., with greater
risks. Many of the class of
farmers mentioned are now making
from four to six per cent., and previous
to the last few years were making from
eight to ten per cent Now if these
statements be true—and I am persuad-
ed no observant man will deny them—
why is it that the other class of farmers
do not make farming pay? While you
are considering that proposition, I will
say the very same thing happens in
every other occupation, trade or pro-
fession. Look at the merchants, you
find one getting rich and ten making as-
signments for the benefit of their
creditors. Take the mechanics, manu-
facturers and other trades peo-
ple. The few succeed and the many
fail. It will be found but little bet-
ter in the learned professions; a few get
to the top and make fame and money;
the vast majbrlty make a life-time
struggle for existence and die poor.
What is the reason, then, that farming
in the great majority of instances does
not pay? Largely the very same reasons
that apply to other callings, and make
it impossible that all, or even a large
majority, shall succeed. Some of these,
reasons will be stated, and they will
apply to farmers as well as to other
classes:
1. Many persons make grievous mis-
takes at the beginning. From false
pride, the advice of friends or necessity,
they choose the wrong calling. No one
will be likely to succeed in any business
in which he is not specially interested,
and for which he has not at least some
adaptability.
3. Some have too much theory and
too little practicability.
8. Some wish to do too big a business
at the start with little capital; they go
largely in debt; the interest consumes
all they can make, and the first reverse
they go under.
♦. Others trust their business too
much to other hands, spending their
own time in idleness, or worse, in vi-
cious habits.
5. Some, unwilling to restrict their
own wants and those of their family
within their actual income, spend more
than they make, and, of course, must
soon resell the end.
fl. Others have no capacity for any
business and of eonrae can not succeed.
The following reasons apply especial-
ly to farmers: Some with poor farms
and large families ean not, even with
fair management and faithful work,
more than make a frugal living. Oth-
ers with good farms have no ability to
control or properly direct laborers, and
in the end the ooat of production cx-
coeds the value of wbat they produce.
Many other causes might be men-
tioned. such as lock of intelligent ac-
tion In making, oaring and using ma-
nure. Lack of the necessary knowl-
edge os to how and when to use tom-
mqrctal fertilisers, end the particular
kind adapted to the soli cultivated;
also the ceuees which have operated
injuriously In depressing the prices of
farm products. These latter may be
treated of more fully hereafter. Thoae
mentioned will toffice to elicit thought
the subject end an effort to find
seme remedy, which poeslhly may be
reached hereafter. lie patient and
in Fa
........pquaL It is plain,
therefore, that some desirable lemons
in farming may be leaned by looking
across the Atlantic. . J* v
A century and a half ago the cul-
tivated lands of Orest Britain were no
more productive than oars ore now.
Since then English thought hss been
busy, and innumerable experiments
have been made to aaeertain the best
means of obtaining the largest profits
from agriculture on that island of
the most brainy, steady, prac-
tical and far-sighted race known
to history. England’s chemistry and
research have discovered, and her ships
brought from remote countries new
manurlal riches to replace thoae which
had passed into crops or been washed
into rivers and the seas. She hoe
drawn upoq the nitrate deposits of
South America and ocean islands ss no
other nation has, and used machinery
to better advantage in deep and thor-
ough tillage and economical harvesting
than any other. Her methods of crop
rotation are also said to be the best in
the world. While in recent years we
have become s more inventive peo-
ple than the Englishmen, they
are not slow to appropriate oat
good inventions, and make them
as beneficial to themselves as
if they were their own. They are
phlegmatic, patient and persistent,
while our climate, opportunities, habits
and race crossings have made us almost
as mercurial as the French. We hurry,
and hurry breeds neglect and waste.
The time has come when we need to
think seriously about adhering down to
the painstaking methods of the mother
country.
Our farmers, with comparatively few
exceptions, arc inclined to cultivate too
large areas of land for thoroughness.
It would be better for many of them if
they would confine the efforts they put
forth and the help they employ to
about half the land that they now
work, and see that the best possible
use is made of every foot of that
half. When this plan is proposed to
them they sometimes reply that they
have not the money to spend in tilling
their land properly and obtaining tlie
needed manures. But this excuse is
seldom good and a little thoughtful ex-
perimenting would kill it. It would be
first rate economy to sell portions of
their farms, if the requisite money can
not be otherwise obtained, to enable
themselves to use Jhe means which will
result in double crops. This has often
been demonstrated by some of our best
and most scientific farmers, who have
achieved results similar td those in En-
gland by similar methods. No amount
of sceptical talk on the part of those
who slouch along In the old way can
be regarded as otherwise than foolish
inthe face of those practical proofs. —
Rural World.
HERE-AND" THERE.
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—“Farming pays"—just what it owes,
and no more.
—The farmer who raises "a little of
everything,” including some cotton,
does not get left when the car of prog-
ress pulls out.
—Farmers should raise more wool and
retorco, »»£> eat more mutton raised
at home and less bacon raised in Kansas
and Iowa.
—It is not what one eats, but what he
digests, that makes him strong. It is
not the money a farmer handles, bnt
that which he bags, that enables him to
pay his taxes.—Farm and Ranch.
—The market no longer demands
great mountains of fat in hogs or pork.
About two hundred pounds live weight
makes the most desirable meat, and it
is much cheaper to produce. Farmers,
remember that
—Tlie “dignity of labor" is in the
mind that directs It and not in the mere
labor itself. As well talk of the dignity
of s steam engine or s sausage grinder,
as tlie dignity of labor, as some con-
strue it—Farm and Ranch.
—That sheep never amounts to ranch
that dies when a Innib. This should be
remembered now, and provision made
for the care and safety of theyoungsters
that will be landing on our shores from
the mysterious land of Nowhere in a
few more weeks. —Rural World.
—The present condition of the cotton-
growing industry ought to stimulate
farmers to more effort to produce food
for home consumption, and to sell to
the rnoldly-increasing numbers of non-
producers. Hog products can be made
a paying business.
Breeding very young boars to
young sows, or to those fully matured
does not give the be»t results. Both
parents should lie fully matured, and
In tha prime of life on<l In good condi-
tion, blit not fat- This is not contra-
dicted by tlie records of rlght-mnntlii
boors
—It is, to soy the leo«t, a singular co-
incidence that farmers who bring to
bear upon their business intelligent In-
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